Research indicates that carbapenum-resistant bacteria — which represent a disastrous threat for clinicians — is now prevalent in South Asia and moving into Europe and North America in the same …

Thanks to a small cadre of village volunteers, trained in basic health-care concepts, western Uganda is beginning to see some promising improvements in child health.

The last remaining major category of antibiotics, a class known as carbapenums, is already succumbing to antibiotic-resistant bacteria in places such as the US northeast. “The carbapenums are the last …

ESBL-induced drug resistance in much of the subcontinent, including India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, has become common, says David Livermore, director of the Antibiotic Resistance Monitoring and Reference Laboratory at the …

Pointing to the global dissemination of a category of bacterial plasmids that are impervious to cephalosporins along with several other antibiotics,David Livermore, director of the Antibiotic Resistance Monitoring and Reference …

The FDA bans injecting chicken eggs with antibiotics as a human health threat but backs down when industry groups — known collectively as ‘Big Chicken’ — squawk.

Alarming new data from the Public Health Agency of Canada suggests that widespread off-label use of cephalosporin antibiotics in poultry hatcheries is triggering human resistance to the class of antibiotics.

Seven years after Canadian experts called for tighter rules governing unrestricted imports of unapproved and untested antibiotics used in meat production due to worries that their use contributes to antibiotic …

How the Government of Canada pitted scientists from Simon Fraser University against colleagues at the University of British Columbia in its campaign to shut INSITE, Vancouver’s safe injection site.